SWITZERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 7

SWITZERS.

(From our own Correspondent.) Since my last there is nothing of importance to communicate. The weather for the past fortnight has been very changeable. Last week it mined 1 or snowed pretty well all through, and left sufficient snow on the ranges to supply all the water races for a long time to come. At present we have f sunny days and frosty nights, and would like to have a lease of such five weather. By the way, I notice in the local columns of a lata issue of your journal a paragraph in reference to our Hospital. I do not know from whence you derived your information, but the statement will bear correction. Tour' informant states that we had only three patients in the Switzers Hospital last year, and goes on to draw some interesting inferences from the assumed fact. For your correspondent's information, I may state there were sixteen indoor patients in the Hospital last year besides those whom the surgeon attended at their several residences. "When the Committee feel themselves in a more healthy position, financially speaking, and are enabled to publish yearly returns of the Hospital affairs, such information as your correspondent communicates will be unnecessary. A case of some interest to the mining community was disposed of before the Warden on Monday. The defendant had some time ago, for " appropriating to his own use some drills, powder, &c." the property of the Argyle Water Race Co. been sent to gaol for a month. On 'his enlargement his mates sent him notice to resums work, his claim having been stopped during his confinement. As he paid little attention to the notice, they bui d for a dissolution of partnership. The Warden ordered the defendant's share to be sold. We have a good healthy oppositioa

amongst the butchers on Switzers just now, two fresh ones having entered thfl lists in opposition to the old established. I wish them success. If I am correctly informed, the opposition in the butchering line is already bearing fruit, a meeting of the master bakers having been held the other evening to take into consideration the present price of bread and the propriety, if found practicable, of lowering same. As the meeting was considered a private one, although convened for the public welfare, your correspondent did not seek admission., I have been informed, from |a quarter in which I am disposed to place confidence, that the master bakers unanimously agreed to reduce the price of the four-pound loaf to fourteen pence halfpenny, on and after the 15th instant, such reduction to remain in force during the winter monter irrespective of the probability of an advance of ten shillings per ton on cartage. The monthly meeting of the committee of the Mining Association, which should have been held here on the 4th instant, was adjourned until Saturday, the 11th, for want of a quorum.

The Oddfellows' ball is to come off at the • Camp Hotel on the 24th inst. Should the weather prove propitious, there is little doubt it will be one of the best affairs of the sort that has ever been held in this locality.